Improvement in hair-holders



1. I'NESLYL. Hair- Holder s.

Patented Feb. 9-,1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

EDWIN J. INESLY, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT l N HAIR-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,578, dated February 9, 1875; application filed November 28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. INEsLY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Hair-Holder; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which the same letter represents the same thing in each figure.

Figure 1 is a top View of my improved hairholder; Fig. 2 a front View, and Fig 3 a side View, thereof.

The object of my improvement is to provide a convenient means for a lady to hold her bands and puffs of hair when rearranging and redressing the same.

Heretofore they have pinned them to a dress or inserted them in a bureau-drawer, greatly to the injury of the hair. I obviate this by an adjustable holder, which may be affixed to any shelf or bureau-top at pleasure.

A A represent the clamping-jaws; B, the screw-bolt; (l, the spring connecting the jaws D, the crimping plate and pins; E E, buttons to support the crimping-plate; F, the hook; G, the swing-gate; H, a rubber plate; II, the slots in the clamping-jaws; J J, hooks and eyes for connecting crimping-plate D with the clamping-jaws.

The operation is as follows: The ends of the jaws A A are placed one above and the other below a table-top, or whatever the holder is to be secured to, by turning the nut upon bolt B in slots I I. A braid of hair is then caught upon hook F. or placed under swing-gate G, and it is obvious that it may then be manipulated at pleasure. The hook will not injure the braid, nor the gate, as rubber plate H prevents the gate from cutting the hair when the gate rises or shut-s. Crimping-plate I) being affixed by hooks and eyes J J, and secured by but-tons E E, a front or frisette is then caught upon the pins of the crimping-plate, which hold it, so that it may be readily combed out and redressed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a hair-holder, the adjustable clamping jaws A A, in combination with the swinggate .G, constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The adjustable clampingjaws A A, in combination with the pin-plate D, constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

A EDWIN J. INESLY.

Witnesses:

S. J. GORDON, JOHN W. RIPLEY. 

